Last week I made a big blunder of buying a used Samsung ML-1250 printer based on the web reviews and on the commitment from Samsung (as printer in their brochures and manuals) that it will work for sure with GNU/Linux. I spent almost all of today trying to get it to work under GNOME on my Debian system and simply failed.
I downloaded loads and loads of software like CUPS and associated packages, drivers etc etc. But nothing would work with the printer. I have seen it working fine under WIndows. Printing really sucks under GNU/Linux, may be because there are very less users who test/use printing under it.
I bought it only for making Iron-ON PCBs and had grant plans to make afew PCBs tomorrow. All in vain.
So, my printer is up for sale. Can vouch that it works fine under M$ WIndows. It’s just that I do not want to waste space for it at this point. Or may be if no one buys it from me, I may even get WIndows installed.
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